Choose To Live Your Life With Happiness and Don't Regret Your Decisions

There's so many things about life that I don't understand, and I will never have the answers to everything I want to know.  None of us will.  That is part of the challenges we face in life, trying to figure out the answers to all those questions we have.  At least if we can accept that we don't need to have all the answers, we can live our lives with a higher level of happiness. 

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.” ― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

We've all heard that expression...Life is short.  Sadly for some, life is shorter than it is for others.  So why not live the best life we can while we are still here?  Why not choose to be happy?  I know it's hard sometimes, but try to make choices that bring you happiness.  We all want to live the best life we can, to be happy and do what is right for us, and for those we love.  Do you ever hear anyone say otherwise?   Nobody wants to cause misery to another person.   At least, no decent person does.  And nobody wants to live an unhappy life.  Go for what you want that makes you happy!

“There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.”
― Judith McNaught, Remember When

I know people make decisions that adversely affect their lives, both consciously and unconsiously.  We all make mistakes because we are not perfect.  We can look back on our lives and see where we went wrong, and where we may have been able to change the course of our lives, had we made different decisions.  But that is life...we choose, we grow, we fail, we achieve, we loose, we regret, we learn.  We are constantly faced with decisions, and we don't know the outcome of those decisions until after the fact, sometimes minutes, sometimes days, weeks, months, or even years later.  We live and learn, and we will never stop learning and growing as long as we are living. 

“That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

The important thing is to accept that we are going to make mistakes.  We are not always going to make the best decisions on everything we ever encounter in our lives.  Sometimes we have to look back to realize if our choices were wrong or right.  Sometimes our decisions are not as simple as right or wrong, they are simply a choice.  It's no different for anyone, no matter who you are.

“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.”
― Mel Brooks

In light of that, articles like this can help us to at least think a little harder about what it is that is most important in life, before it is too late.  http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
I think I've made a conscious effort to do that, but I guess I won't really know until it is the end of the road for me.